Battery Left Time Showing in Activity Monitor ?

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What is the Green APP showing in your post ?

Battery Health 2. Free download from the App Store.

 

[hiddenmarkov]

Apple has dismissed and removed the earlier battery estimation indicator on the Desktop saying it was not correctly estimating battery time left ! Does that make battery estimation indicator on the Activity Monitor also obsolete is what I am asking ?

In general no battery life app, apple or 3rd party will be completely accurate. They are snapshots of what is happening. And a guesstimate from that.

The best way to get your approximate use is to use the system...and record/remember times. You can make this as fun or as work productive as you want.

When not busy my fun battery test is fire up minecraft for a lunch break. I know with minecraft sans power adapter i get between 40-60% battery after an hour. Variance will be the resolution of texture packs I run, 32 bit good for longer life, 64 bit....yeah that thats the 40% lol.

Or to catch up on video at lunch copy and imports into FCP. I know on average 75gb (about 45 minutes of video recorded in apple pro res 422 HQ) of movie files will have my system 30-40% in an hour with basic copy over from drive sled (I use external recorders), project creation and import of media files. This a base....just in the project, I turn off audio corrections and such since in the past with crappier audio systems for outside events...sometimes auto audio fix removes my music from the event. It said oh this is crap noise. There was me going no FCP...its it crap sound yes but not noise to filter out sadly. You can't control the audio at some events sadly.